Project Zero researchers see promising trends in vulnerability fixes
Data from the Google-based team seems to reflect an industry getting faster at fixing bugs and deploying patches.
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White House hosts open-source software security summit in light of expansive Log4j flaw
The meeting will combine tech leaders with feds.
Ransomware hackers turn to virtual machine software to boost extortion schemes
Two Eastern European criminal groups began targeting hypervisors in 2020, according to CrowdStrike.
Who is World Wired Labs and why are they selling an Android trojan?
BlackBerry Cylance researchers think they've found a possible shell company for Chinese hackers known as the Winnti group.
How an NSA researcher plans to allow everyone to guard against firmware attacks
The work is the culmination of seven years worth of research into the security of firmware.
‘Thunderclap’ collection of hardware vulnerabilities affects Mac, Windows, Linux systems
Many modern computers are vulnerable to a number of security flaws that could exploit a machine’s Thunderbolt connection to its network cards, keyboard, computer charger or other…
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$45,000 bounty offered for Linux zero days
The $15,000 price bump is likely a result of higher demand.
Industry braces for critical Intel security flaw impacting a decade’s worth of chips
A critical security flaw in Intel processors will require an overhaul of operating system kernels after research found that decades worth of chips could be impacted by…
BlueBorne: The latest Bluetooth vulnerability that impacts billions of devices
"These vulnerabilities are the most serious Bluetooth vulnerabilities identified to date," Armis researchers explained.
SSH inventor analyzes tools the CIA wrote to exploit his protocol
The CIA hacking tools called Gyrfalcon and BothanSpy, as described in documents released by anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, are "effective, but surprisingly unsophisticated," according to Tatu Ylonen.